Receptacle



G. W. POPPE Nov. 10, 1936.

REGEPTACLE Filed July 20, 1935 E l 6 M TO M 5 9 4 v Z v N 4 ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 10, 1936 UNITED STATES ZEGGAYG PATENT OFFICE Equitable Paper Bag 00. Inc., Brooklyn, N. Y.,

a corporation of New York Application July 20, 1935, Serial No. 32,342

2 Claims.

This invention relates to a receptacle adapted to be used for mailing purposes and especially one which permits the ready inspection of the contents thereof.

An object of the invention is to produce a receptacle of this character which may be manufactured rapidly and at low cost and in which the contents is securely held Within the receptacle.

The invention is an improvement on the receptacle described and shown in my Patent 2,000,188 granted May '7, 1935, and a feature thereof resides in the manner in which tapered flaps are formed at the bag mouth.

The detailed construction and advantages will be better understood by reference to the accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a receptacle having the bottom opened out to better show its construction.

Figure 2 is a view of the top portion of the receptacle shown in Figure 1 with one of the closing flaps folded within the receptacle.

Figure 3 is a section on the line 33 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a view similar to Figure 2 but showing both flaps folded inside the receptacle.

Figure 5 is a transverse section on the line 55 of Figure 4; and

Figure 6 is a vertical section on the line 6-6 of Figure 4.

Referring to Figure l the article forming the subject matter of the present invention comprises a front wall 2 and a seam wall 4, the seam of which is indicated at 5. For the purpose of better showing the construction, the bottom of the receptacle is shown in open position in Figure 1. In the completed form, however, the bottom is folded along the line a.-a and a line of paste 6 secures the bottom flap to the seam wall forming a receptacle having a reenforced bottom.

In my Patent 2,000,188 above referred to, I have shown and described a paper bag designed for mailing purposes in which the mouth of the bag is provided with two flaps having their side edges out along diagonal lines to permit the flaps to be readily folded within the bag. The flaps are of such length and so proportioned with respect to the size of the bag and the size of the magazine, booklet or the like which the bag is designed to contain, that the flaps may be interleaved with the booklet as shown in Figure 2 of said patent. In order to form the flaps as shown in said patent, it is proposed to sever the side edges of the bag after the bag has been completed in the form shown in Figure 4.

The present invention seeks to produce a receptacle for the same general usage, but which may be made with great rapidity on an ordinary bag machine.

From the description of Figure 1 in the present application, it will readily appear that the receptacle in its first stage of completion closely resembles Figure 4 of said patent.

In order to produce flaps having tapered sides which flaps may be more readily folded in, diagonal scores 8 are formed near the top edges of the bag. These scores extend from the sides of the bag to the top edges of the bag walls thereof and preferably form an angle of 45 with the bag edges. Preferably the walls of the bag are also scored along the line IU of Figure 1 in order that the portions of the bag walls formed by the scores 8 may be readily folded in thereby producing two flaps at the bag mouth, one indicated at 9, being the longer.

The process of production need not be particularly described since bags having offset walls one of which is rounded at its top edge as shown in Figure l are old and Well known and the machinery for producing such bags has reached a high state of development.

When the upper sides of the bag are pushed in or interfolded and the longer flap 9 having the rounded edge i I is folded inside the bag along the score line 10, the upper portion of the bag presents the appearance shown in Figure 2. A booklet, the upper portions of which are indicated by the dotted lines I2 (Figure 2) is shown in such a position that the lower portion of the flap 9 may be interleaved with it. The shorter flap l4 may then be folded inside the bag and the side portions I6 formed by folding in the side edges along the score lines 8 interlocked with similar portions of the flap 9 thereby acting to securely hold the contents of the bag against falling out even though roughly handled. The bag, however, may be readily opened out at the top and the contents inspected when necessary or desirable.

It will thus be seen that my improved receptacle possesses all the advantages of the container shown in said patent, and due to the interlocking of the flaps it is not necessary that the longer flap 9 be interleaved with the contents.

What I claim is:

1. A receptacle having front and back walls, and an open mouth, a transverse score in said bag Walls situated a distance from the mouth substantially less than half the bag width, diagonal scores in each wall extending from said transverse score at the side edges of the receptacle to the top edges of said walls defining integral portions at the upper corners of the receptacle adapted to fold inwardly to thereby produce flaps, one of which flaps is longer than the other flap, the longer flap adapted when folded inside the bag to interleave with a magazine, booklet or the like, and the shorter flap when folded in, interlocking with the interfolded portions of the longer flap.

2. A receptacle having a front and back wall, and an open mouth the upper edge of one wall extending beyond the upper edge of the other wall, a transverse score in said bag walls situated a distance from the bag mouth substantially less than half the bag width, diagonal score lines in each wall extending from said transverse score at the side edges of the receptacle to the top edges of said walls and making an angle with the side edges of the receptacle of 45, the upper corners of the receptacle adapted to be interfolded along said diagonal score lines thereby producing flaps at the bag mouth one of which flaps is longer than the other, the longer flap adapted when folded inside the bag to interleave with a magazine, booklet or the like, and the shorter flap when folded in, interlocking with the interfolded portions of the longer flap.

GEORGE W. POPPE. 

